Emily Dickinson Poetry

Introduction

Emily Dickinson - one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of world literature, both in human and in creative terms. We can imagine in Amherst, a town in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century. A woman dressed in white; fifteen hundred years ago that never leaves her house. This woman dressed in white is Emily Dickinson, who was born in Amherst in 1830, within a prosperous family. She had a brother, Austin and a sister Lavinia. At twenty she began to write, but after the Civil War she decided to always wear white and retreat into the house ...